News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-24
NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE.
WHAT Is GOING ON IN THE WORLD.
A Famous Appetite-The POlieemnn's Wife
They Met AGain-Didn't Know he was
Postmaster, &c, &c.

A Famous Appetite-The POlicemnn's Wife
They Met AGain-Didn't Know he was
Postmaster, &C., &c.
A FoURTEEN-YEAR OLD scholar in the
district school near Vandalia, ILL.,, took
a swallow from his ink bottle the other
day to see how it would taste. The
next morning he died. His physician
said that the ink contained a deadly
poison.
EIGHTEEN months ago William Chap
man, of New London, was in a house
when it was struck by lightning, and
was severely shocked. Ever since he
has been able to predict coming thun
der storm with great certainty from GER
tain pains that he feels in his heel some
hours before the storm.
A YOUNG man in one of the north coun-
ties of Dakota had an engagement to
marry during the late blizzard, the home
of the bride being 30 miles away. The
roads were blocked so that he could not
go by way of conveyance, but he took
snowshoes and made the trip on time,
and his wife was proud Of his feat.
A FEW Sundays since the pastor of a
suburban church inNewburyport, Mass,
stopped in the middle of his sermon and
announced that as several were asleep
he would give them chance for a
short nap. He sat down, the sleepers
were aroused, and the divine proceeded
with his discourse after recess of few
minutes.
THE narrow escape of Policeman
Heinbotham, of Brooklyn, a button of
whose waistcoat stopped a rufian's bull
let a day or two ago, should point q
moral to all Pc1fsemen's wives. If Mrs.
nbotham-provided there is one, of
course-had not kept her husband s
waistcoat buttons sewed on, she would,
in all probability, have been a widow
to day.
IT has been told me as a fact that the
reason many of our fore athers built
their houses with Dutch roofs was be-
cause in those days buildings were taxed
according to the number of stories, and
that house with a Dutch roof, having
properly speaking two stories, was con-
sidered but a one story building if the
shingles came down to the top of the
first story.
THE Lioing Church says that there
were few Connecticut women of the
last century who did not keep a diary.
Then it quotes this from diary of 1900:
eve had roast pork for dinner, and
DR.. S, who carved, held up rib on
his fork and said: Here, ladies, is
what Mother Eve was made Of Yea
said sister Patty, and it's from much
the same kind of critter.' F."
E B. DAVIS, while putting up tele-
phone wires in Detroit, seized a working
wire and received shock that knocked
him from the pole to an adjoining roof
He was not harmed by the fall. but
found that the wire had burned a groove
across the palm of his hand clear to the
bone. Not drop of blood was drawn,
and on the sides of the groove the flesh
was scared. The hand gave him no
pain, and he was at work next day.
JOSEPH MCCLELLAN, an engineer on the
Railway of Canada. said
the other day to friend: eff | get over
this day all right shall complete my
thirty years on the road" A few min
utes later he placed an oil can with
sharp nozzle on the step of the engine,
went to get up into the cab, missed his
footing, and in falling struck the nozzle
Of the can, which penetrated the skull
behind the ear. In two hour, he was
dead. He was 76 years old.
THE other night some young and fool
ish citizens of ReidsvIlle, Ga, thought
to brighten a young woman by going
about her house with long white sheets
about them, but the young woman S
father let the dogs loose, and, in the
words of the Enterprise, of that place,
one spook had to go home and change
MS pants, after he jumped the fence and
Sot-a2yays. Hyllile another was seen in the
vicinity of the house next day looking
for his hat and one of his chum's shoes"
THOMAS BRoxToN, of St Simon's
Mills, Ca, has heifer that has adopted
4 large dog belonging to a neighbor.
She has never had a calf, but treats the
log as if he were one, and shows great
anxiety and worry when separated from
nm. She will attack other dogs and
lrive them away, and even attacks per-
sons in defence of the dog Mr. Brox-
.on undertook to drive her away from
he dog few evenings since, when she
urned on him and drove him indoors
or safety.
Mrs. ERWIN, a so dier's widow, living
/ few miles from Clearville, Pa, recent.
y received a pension and back pay
mounting to $4,000. One day last
week the agent who procured the money
lrove to Mrs. Erwin's and counted out
he amount to her in 800 bank notes.
t was noticed that when she reached
,ut to take the money she was deadly
1ale and trembling violently, She took
he money in her hand, clutched it con
,ulsively, and fell dead at the agents
eet. She was so years of age.
AN Indian of Owens Valley, Cal, hail
d passing doctor the other day and
sked him to look at his sick child. The
loctor saw that the little fellow was at
leaths door, and told his father that he
ould do nothing for him, but the In
liam insisted that it must have some
white mans medis," and so to satisfy
he anxious father the doctor prepared
nipple medicine. Next day the Indian
allied at the doctors Office and said
'Pappoose dead, maybe so your medis
ieap kill UNI; you buy UNI box, make
I'M grave; you kill UNI all same white
nan, put I'm in ground all same white
man,"
FIFTY-THREE years ago Isaac Sins,
laugh and Lydia Cotton were ten-year-
Id school children near Waynesburg,
"a and very much attached to each
ther. Lydias parents moved west and |
he children were separated In time |
saac married and reared large family, |
nd about ten years ago his wife died. |
lie lived then at PAtaskala, o. About |
year ago he decided that he'd try and |
nd Lydia, of whom he had lost all |
race; and after long trying he found
hat she was widow in IT. Louis. He
grote to her and she wrote to him, and |
he other day h3 sent her some money
nd she started for Ohio, where she
7as met by Isaac, who married her then
nd there
MORE than year ago Gotlieb Hess
lade application to be appointed Post
Master at Andersonville, Ross county,
)hio Hess heard nothing from the
'Ost Office Department at Washington,